page_title: Karl Gröger
section_title: War years
hierarchical_section_title: Karl Gröger / War years
caption_attribution_description: English: Only existing photo showing Karl Jr. In WWII after being inducted into the German army ad a Physician Officer.
context_page_description: Karl Gröger was a member of a Dutch resistance group executed in 1943.
  In collaboration with a Dutch resistance group, he destroyed the registration of address office of Amsterdam, thereby destroying file cards of Dutch people which would have faced forced labour and deportation to concentration camps.
  In 1943 the SS and police court sentenced him to death in Den Haag.
  He was given the title "Righteous Among the Nations" in 1986 by Yad Vashem.
context_section_description: Two years later, in May 1940,  the German Wehrmacht marched into the Netherlands. He had to join the German Army. After some months the army discharged him because he was discovered to be  of Jewish descent. 
  Unbeknownst to the Germans, Karl (Bubie as he was known to friends and Munkie as he was known to his parents), was the product of a full Jewish mother (who converted into the Catholic faith in 1911) and of a half-Jewish father. Their son, Karl Gröger, Jr. was actually baptized into the Catholic faith at birth.
caption: Karl Jr. 1941, after being inducted into the German army as a Physician Officer.
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